A child no older than ten clutches a rifle, struggling to stay upright in his freshly-pressed uniform while smiling from the back of a pick-up truck careering through Bangui. It's a familiar scene in the Central African capital, where demobilised child soldiers hoping to find their families and start a different kind of life regularly arrive at specialist centres run by western charities. According to UN figures, 3,500 children under the age of 18 are ...Saturday, 3 August 2013
Struggling to Re-adapt are Central Africa's Child Soldiers
A child no older than ten clutches a rifle, struggling to stay upright in his freshly-pressed uniform while smiling from the back of a pick-up truck careering through Bangui. It's a familiar scene in the Central African capital, where demobilised child soldiers hoping to find their families and start a different kind of life regularly arrive at specialist centres run by western charities. According to UN figures, 3,500 children under the age of 18 are ...
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